Son to Mother - Henrik Dahlgren | Svanholm Singers [Live in Taipei National Concert Hall]

To purchase sheet music for male choir: https://ejeby.se/produkt/son-to-mother/ To purchase sheet music for mixed choir: https://ejeby.se/produkt/son-to-mothe... Facebook:   / henrikdahlgrenofficial   Official website: https://henrikdahlgren.com Support me on Patreon:   / henrikdahlgren   Performed by Svanholm Singers (   / svanholmsingers  ) Conducted by Sofia Söderberg (https://www.sofiasoderberg.se/) The composer Henrik Dahlgren writes: ”In 2017, I was commissioned by the male voice choir Svanholm Singers to write a work for inclusion in a concert marking 70 years since the proclamation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Choosing a text was difficult. I came across upon a poem by Maya Angelou, but it struck me as being too powerful and emotional for the music I was writing to carry it; everything I composed sounded banal next to Angelou’s words. I soon realized that I could use silence to enhance the text, rather than heaping layers and layers of music upon it. Silence is both terrifying and serious – in a sense, it is the only adequate counterpoint to the poetry. So, I decided to build the piece on silence. Though the beginning of the piece is the opposite of silence – a scream of desperation –, I followed that outburst by cutting the poem’s stanzas into single words, repeated in a different order each time, almost in the manner of a mantra. Finally, they end up in the right order and suddenly the words take on their rightful meaning. I hope, in this way, the music is equally powerful as the words. Son to Mother has been well-received and has gone on to become one of the most widely performed pieces I have written. It has been performed at various festivals and in various countries, including Taiwan, France and China – where it only just made it past the government censors. Official video:    • Svanholm Singers - Son To Mother (by Henri...